Section 1: Position Summary

Shape the long-term user experience vision for web, mobile, and AI experiences that help millions of people achieve their financial goals. Use design thinking techniques and foster strong collaboration across business, product, design, analytics, and technology to translate business strategy, client insights, and market trends into actionable UX direction for product teams. Solve complex, large-scale problems and create experiences our clients love and that drive results for the business. Lead the UX discipline and drive culture and process improvements. Use creative and technical problem-solving skills to guide UX strategy. This is a senior individual-contributor role with broad strategic influence.

Section 2: Job Functions, Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Drive UX strategy, principles, and north-star experiences for the most complex, program-level initiatives.
• Present experience vision, strategy, and recommendations to leadership and senior stakeholders to guide execution and decision making.
• Partner with leadership across Product, IT, and Analytics to deeply understand core business and user goals to identify new opportunities. Provide the vision and ensure the necessary alignment to translate those opportunities into concrete, outcome-focused solutions.
• Partner with UX research for discovery work, research synthesis, journey mapping, service design, and opportunity framing.
• Guide teams in prioritizing user needs, accessibility, and long-term experience value.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to inform strategy.
• Lead experience and design reviews, providing strategic direction, actionable feedback, and quality oversight for designers to ensure alignment to experience vision and standards.
• Extensive knowledge of the competitive landscape and of the Ascensus brand.
• Drive a user-centered design culture, innovation, and process improvements up, down, and across the organization.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships across design, business, development, and analytics teams. Manage expectations within the team and with clients.
• Use qualitative and quantitative data to drive design decisions and ensure that solutions have the intended impact.
• Assist with other tasks and projects as assigned
• Responsible for protecting, securing, and proper handling of all confidential data held by Ascensus to ensure against unauthorized access, improper transmission, and/or unapproved disclosure of information that could result in harm to or our clients.